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Peter Sotos

"Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies."

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Amber Hurdle

"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

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Amber Hurdle

"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."

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Amber Hurdle

"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."

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Amber Hurdle

"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."

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Amber Hurdle

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

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Amber Hurdle

"But language is wine upon his lips."

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Amber Hurdle

"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech."

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Peter Sotos
"Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies."

Language

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Peter Sotos
"If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas."

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Peter Sotos
"But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print."

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Peter Sotos
"I'm not trying to do conceptual art."

Art

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Peter Sotos
"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."

Imagination

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Peter Sotos
"I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much."

Books

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Peter Sotos
"And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away."

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Peter Sotos
"My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me."

Creativity

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Peter Sotos
"In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing."

Work

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Peter Sotos
"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself."

Life

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